The Dismal Failure of LLMs as EV Search Aids

For six years, I've been in the market for an electric compact SUV. I haven't yet found one with the features I want at a price I'm willing to pay. (As a rule, missing features have been a bigger impediment than price.) My last review took place about a year ago , so I decided it was time to look again. This time I experimented with seven LLM-based chatbots as search assistants. I gave each the…